F R U C T I F I C A T I O N .
TAB. X I I.
The column and sexual apparatus of SATYRIUM PUSTULATUM;
from a drawing by Mr. Bauer in 1800. This plate shews
the state of all the parts of fructification before impregnation
and about 10 or 12 days before the expansion of
the flower; and illustrates the Tribe called OPHRYDE^E.
1. Back view of the young bud ; natural size.
2. Front view of the same ; magnified 4 diameters.
3. Back view of the same; magnified 4 diameters.
4. Side view of the same; magnified 4 diameters.
5. Longitudinal section of the lip of the same bud, the sepals and lateral
petals being removed; magnified 4 diameters.
6. Front view of the column and ovarium ; magnified 8 diameters.
7. A portion of the same column with the stigma in an unimpregnated
state, and the anther; magnified 16 diameters.
8. The same, with the stigma cut off and turned aside so as to shew the
clinandrium or back of the stigma, with its glands, and the position
of the caudiculae at that stage, when they are still enclosed in the
sheaths of the anther ; magnified 16 diameters.
9. A side view of the same parts in their natural position.
10. Front view of a vertical section of the same through the middle of
the cells of the anther and the stigma, in the direction of e ƒ, in
fig. 9; magnified 16 diameters.
11. A view of a vertical section of the same through the middle of the
connectivum, in the direction of a b, in fig. 7 ; magnified 16 diameters.
12. A vertical section through one cell of the anther and its caudicular
sheath, in the direction of c d of fig. 8; magnified 16 diameters.
13. A transverse section of a caudicular sheath, and of the two tubular
caudiculaj enclosed in it; magnified 32 diameters.